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Quiz about The Decemberists
Quiz about The Decemberists

The Decemberists Test | Music


A quiz about the rockers for Oregon.

A multiple-choice quiz by cbingham. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
cbingham
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
374,679
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
87
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Question 1 of 10
1. What song has the line "Remember what she does when you're asleep"? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What song about pirates goes "Tell your daughters not to walk the streets alone tonight"? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In what song does Jenny Conlee voice an insane dying mother? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What song gets its name from a hotel in San Francisco and not a city in Spain? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. There is a song called "The Perfect Crime #2" but there is no song called "The Perfect Crime #1."


Question 6 of 10
6. What song goes "Raise a glass to turnings of the season"? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What song was written for Colin's autistic child? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The Decemberists' 2015 album is called "What a Terrible World What a Beautiful World." In what song does that line appear? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What song did "Dracula's Daughter" become? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What song started out as a song Colin wrote to encourage his son to eat his breakfast? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What song has the line "Remember what she does when you're asleep"?

Answer: Cautionary Song

"The Cautionary Song" from "Castaways and Cutouts" is a song in which a father tells his child the horrific things his mother puts up with to earn the money necessary to feed him. The idea is to guilt the child into eating his collard greens.
2. What song about pirates goes "Tell your daughters not to walk the streets alone tonight"?

Answer: Shanty for the Arethusa

"Shanty For the Arethusa" is a song from "Her Majesty the Decemberists" in which the narrator is a pirate telling a story of himself and other pirates. The pirates kill everyone they can find in the bars and hotels and then rape whatever young women they can find. Then they get sent to Australia to hang.
3. In what song does Jenny Conlee voice an insane dying mother?

Answer: The Mariner's Revenge Song

"The Mariner's Revenge Song" is a BRILLIANT eight-minute story of a sailor whose mother gets involved with a crazy young man. The young man gives his mother syphilis, then he spends all of the family's money on whores, alcohol, and gambling. He leaves after spending all the family's money on junk. Thanks to him, the family can no longer pay for their house which gets re-possessed.

The mother goes insane, and then she dies. Right before she dies, she tells her son to avenge her. The narrator vows to make good on his mother's promise.

Many years later the narrator learns where his enemy is, then joins a privateer ship. He finds him and prepares to kill him but then a whale knocks over both ships and chews to death everyone except the narrator and his enemy.

The music at the end of the song matches the music of his mother's last wish, implying that the narrator did exactly what his mother told him to do. They both decompose in the whale's body.
4. What song gets its name from a hotel in San Francisco and not a city in Spain?

Answer: O Valencia

The music video for "O Valencia" shows the Valencia Hotel in San Francisco. In addition, during their second concert in Atlanta in 2015, Colin Meloy introduced "O Valencia" as "another song about San Francisco." So it's clear that the song refers to the hotel in San Francisco and not the city in Spain.

The reason he said "ANOTHER song about San Francisco" is because they had already played "Grace Cathedral Hill" earlier in the show.
5. There is a song called "The Perfect Crime #2" but there is no song called "The Perfect Crime #1."

Answer: False

They had not released it yet when they put out "The Crane Wife", but the Decemberists do have a song called "The Perfect Crime #1." The song is available on the internet if you know where to look.
6. What song goes "Raise a glass to turnings of the season"?

Answer: Don't Carry it All

This song from the "King is Dead" is about a family whose boy has died, and the entire neighborhood grieves for them. Each neighbor takes a bit of grief so that the affected family does not have to carry all the grief by themselves. Strangely, this song does not appear on the "We All Raise Our Voices to the Air" live album, which was recorded on the "King is Dead" tour and features seven songs from that album.

Although this song isn't on that live album, they did play it at some shows on that tour.
7. What song was written for Colin's autistic child?

Answer: Rise to Me

Colin wrote "Rise to Me" for his son Henry, who has autism. His autism is hinted at in the line "Hey Henry can you hear me? Let me see those eyes." Autistic people have trouble with eye contact. "Better Not Wake the Baby" and "12/17/12" were written about Colin's second child.
8. The Decemberists' 2015 album is called "What a Terrible World What a Beautiful World." In what song does that line appear?

Answer: 12/17/12

"12/17/12" was written a few days after the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut. Colin's wife conceived their second child around this time. Colin was wondering what kind of world his child would grow up in. He acknowledges that it is generally a beautiful world, but there are some horrific things in this world.
9. What song did "Dracula's Daughter" become?

Answer: O Valencia

During the "King is Dead" tour, the Decemberists played "Dracula's Daughter" many times right before "O Valencia." Sometimes he would sing "Dracula's Daughter" right before the third verse of "O Valencia" and get the audience to sing along.
10. What song started out as a song Colin wrote to encourage his son to eat his breakfast?

Answer: The Calamity Song

During Colin's 2013 solo tour and the Decemberists' "What a Terrible World What a Beautiful World" tour, Colin sometimes said "I wrote this next song to encourage my son to eat his breakfast." Then he would play a tune seemingly called "Hank, Eat Your Oatmeal" which has an "Oooooooooh" similar to the the "Oooooooh" in "The Calamity Song." Then he would play "The Calamity Song" to confirm that's what it became.
Source: Author cbingham

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